“Here you have” Mass-mailing virus returns to old-school tactics
By Tony Millington, Malware Operations Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services On September 9, 2010 at 15:20 (GMT) MessageLabs Intelligence identified and began blocking a new virus attack using old mass-mailer techniques. U ...
6:52 vrijdag 10 september 2010
Cutwail Takedown Cripples Bredolab Trojan; No Effect on Spam Levels
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services The Cutwail botnet has been one of the most prolific spamming botnets during the last two to three years. Even before the McColo IS ...
11:45 vrijdag 3 september 2010
Cutwail Takedown Cripples Bredolab Trojan; No Effecft on Spam Levels
Unusual Phishing Scam Disguised as Fast Food Restaurant Survey Aims to Steal Financial Information
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services MessageLabs Intelligence has recently seen an interesting variant on normal bank and other financial institution phishing. This parti ...
16:27 maandag 30 augustus 2010
Dating scammers can be ingenious
By Yuriko Kako-Batt, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Dating scams are a common spam email problem. Spam relating to sex or dating currently accounts for approximately 4 percent of global spam. In a ...
13:32 woensdag 25 augustus 2010
Scareware Haunts Airport Internet Terminals
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services This year, people traveling by air have had to contend with disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökul ...
9:06 woensdag 25 augustus 2010
August Botnet Distribution
In the August 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence report (available here on Tuesday) we present our analysis of the top botnets globally. An analysis of individual bot IP addresses allows mapping of the physical location of bo ...
23:03 maandag 23 augustus 2010
Image Spam
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Service The use of images in spam is well known, and has been going on for as long as it has been possible to send images in email messages. There ...
9:48 maandag 16 augustus 2010
Personalized Spam
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst Spammers use many tactics to add legitimacy to their emails. One technique used is the personalization of their spam, where the spammer will add text to the email ...
8:18 dinsdag 10 augustus 2010
MessageLabs Intelligence Finds Dramatic Increase in requests for Streaming Media during World Cup
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Senior Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Your company’s internet link is precious. Not only is it expensive and limited but it is a vital business tool. Yet recent Mes ...
11:09 woensdag 4 augustus 2010